User blog comment:Finnalca/ROWLET AZELF OR LUCARIO????/@comment-32358261-20171116010124/@comment-32358261-20171119092625

Ok as an ash greninja I recommend giving it hydro pump. Yes it has 80 accuracy but it’s not too bad. You can replace anything you want but don’t take out water shuriken. When ash form, It’s essentially a 90 base power priority move that passes through sturdy and that is way too good to pass up. If you take out ice beam, then it’s risky because you need coverage. Take out night slash and your losing a stab move. U turn is what I would take out but I can definitely see it working to gain momentum.

For an item assualt vest is good I guess but ash greninja started out weak so you’ll want to activate battle bond as soon as you can. Normally this means choice specs but since that’s not available then give it waterium z or life orb. Hydro vortex on hydro pump can pretty much 2 hit ko anything not resist. Of course you can save it until later when ash greninja is triggered. Life orb will boost your damage output a lot more but you lose health every turn. For the most part this isn’t a big deal because ash greninja is a sweeper and wont be expected to last that long anyway, it just needs to do its job to help pick up some Kos.

If I remember correctly pikachu has only 40 something in both defences and that is useless any decent stabmove can kill it instantly. An impish nature will not save it at all. It the equivalent of trying to make a greninja a wall (don’t do it). Also natures only boost the stat by 10% or lower 10%. This means the higher the stat, the bigger the change. The lower the stat the smaller the change.

If a stat was at 100, it will change by 10 points

If a stat was at 50,it would change by 5 points

So even with impish nature on pikachu it would only boost that stat by 1 or 2 points which won’t matter that much.

It’s perfectly fine to still use fire blast. It’s less reliable but it’s accuracy is high enough for it not to be a complete waste. So if you want, you can stick to fire blast.

Use lucario only if you have the lucarionite. Otherwise azelf. But seriously save up for a mega. You have no mega on your team and nowadays it’s almost a must.

And good luck with using shaymin. People might hate you for using paraflinch because it’s very frustrating but it’s incredibly defunct to do even if people have you for it. I use a paraflinch togekiss and even at the type disadvantage and air slash being resisted, I still won because of flinch hax and paralyse. It’s hilarious to see your opponent incapable of doing anything for 5 turns straight.